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Do you feel the earth in your community screaming for help? Are you enraged by browning, deserted plots of land camouflaging your beautiful neighborhood? Do you have what it takes to be a guerilla warrior-fighting for our planet and the posterity of Los Angeles’ ground and air?

If you’re ready to move to action, either with permission from the city or without, become a guerilla gardener and take matters into your own hands. Begun in London circa 2004, the Guerilla Gardening movement, as the organization’s website states, sprouted to life in an attempt to, “wage war against neglect and scarcity of public space.” Here in L.A., green-thumb revolutionaries as young as 10 and as old as 80 have come together to be a part of the L.A. Guerilla Gardeners-our local chapter-making a difference by getting down and dirty to transform barren or rundown spaces into thriving gardens.

Don’t worry, there are ways to contribute to this movement without potentially getting arrested for renegade, middle-of-the-night missions to rip out dead space and replace it with life. LAGG’s website talks of ways to make seed bombs for your private lands, tips and tricks on starting your own garden, ways and tools to donate and how to volunteer on one of their planned, not-so-illegal digs.

Animo Film and Theater Charter High School student, Blanca Perez, helped to organize LAGG’s Seed Bomb Workshop at her school. She thinks this type of radical environmental movement brings light to dark places in our cities. “Coming together to beautify our community brings us closer and makes a safer environment,” she said. Seems like a win-win situation…solidarity and beautification in the name of safety for our environment and our youth.

Join the army of gardeners in the Revolution of Consciousness by getting your hands in the dirt and filling your belly with home-grown food planted by Comrades in the fightto go green!

Here are some organizations walking the walk, ready for you to walk with them:

L.A. Guerilla Gardeners
http://www.laguerrillagardening.org/

Southern California Resistance Youth
http://www.myspace.com/southcentralyouthgarden/

Los Angeles Food Not Bombs
http://www.lafoodnotbombs.org/

Images courtsey of LosAngelesGuerrillaGardners.org

Garden After Guerilla Gardeners

Tags: Environmental Action, Green LA, Green Living, Green Living LA, guerilla gardeners, Social Activism